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Release: OpenNebula 2.2

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The OpenNebula Project announced today the general availability of OpenNebula 2.2 for download. OpenNebula is open-source reference technology used to deploy infrastructure clouds.

OpenNebula 2.2 is the seventh major release of the project.

“With OpenNebula 2.2 we continue to make OpenNebula the open-source choice to deploy an Infrastructure Cloud”, said Ignacio M. Llorente, Project Director at OpenNebula.org. “We are adding new features to strength the production-ready nature of OpenNebula, making it the most proven, powerful an interoperable technology in the cloud arena”.

OpenNebula 2.2 extends the fault-tolerance features of the toolkit and includes out-of-the-box integration with data-center’s monitoring systems.

OpenNebula 1.4 Beta 1 Is Ready for Testing

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The OpenNebula team has announced the availability of OpenNebula 1.4 Beta1 Hourglass (1.3.80), the first preview of the next stable release of the OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Manager.

OpenNebula focuses on incorporating bleeding edge technologies and innovations in many areas of virtual infrastructure management and Cloud Computing.  OpenNebula 1.4 aims to be the swiss-army knife of Cloud Computing, letting you deploy any type of Cloud.  The OpenNebula team has been set now to bug fixing mode to provide a robust and stable OpenNebula 1.4.0 to your data centers.

Please note that OpenNebula 1.4 Beta 1 is not suitable for production settings. Its sole purpose is gathering feedback and testing new exciting features.

Highlights of OpenNebula 1.4 are:

  • EC2 Query API interface on top of OpenNebula, so you can transform your OpenNebula installation into a Public Cloud
  • A new OpenNebula Cloud API (OCA) to easily develop any Cloud interface or Cloud application (several Cloud interfaces, such a OGF OCCI-API, are planned)
  • Support for the VMware Hypervisor family
  • Multiple user support and access-right control for Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks
  • Advance contextualization support to integrate VM packs and implement multi-component services
  • Libvirt interface has been moved to the libvirt repository
  • New ElasticHosts drivers and support for multiple Amazon EC2 Clouds in Hybrid Cloud deployments
  • Easy integration within your data-center services and procedures with a new hook system
  • Many bug fixes, and scalability and performance improvements in several components of the OpenNebula system
  • A whole new set of documentation pages, guides and examples

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Workspace Service Morphs Into Nimbus 2.0

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Grid is dead, and reinventing itself as Cloud. All kidding aside, the idea of providing a virtual machine instance as a service in the Grid rather than just CPU time with the appropriate environment and libraries to be used by different users isn’t new; it actually makes a lot of sense to provide e.g. a working virtual machine instance for a complex scientific application, which is a lot easier than having to document the correct setup for fellow researchers to implement.

The Workspace Service project part of Globus.org has just announced it’s rebranding and releasing the 2.0 version of what will now be known as Nimbus.

One of the core services of the Virtual Workspace project was orchestrating the deployment of VMs on remote resources as well as the release versioning. Today, Nimbus is a set of tools that together provide a “infrastructure-as-a-service” (IaaS) cloud computing solution targeted specifically towards scientific applications. Many non-scientific use cases are supported as well.

Nimbus allows a client to lease remote resources by deploying virtual machines (VMs) on those resources and configuring them to represent an environment desired by the user.

It was formerly known as the “Virtual Workspace Service” (VWS) but the “workspace service” is technically just one the components in the software collection.

Just as Eucalyptus, it is capable of managing clients that are compatible with the Amazon EC2 service.

Open Source Virtualization management platforms like Nimbus , Eucalyptus, OpenNebula and openQRM are catching on. This probably isn’t the last one we’ll learn about. The question is which one will survive eventually.

DSA Research Group Releases OpenNebula (ONE) 1.0

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Recently, the dsa-research group announced that a Technology Preview (TP2) of the OpenNEbula (ONE) Virtual Infrastructure Engine had been made available. Now, a stable release (v1.0) of OpenNebula (ONE) is available for download, again under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0.

OpenNebula enables the dynamic allocation of virtual machines on a pool of physical resources, so extending the benefits of existing virtualization platforms from a single physical resource to a pool of resources, decoupling the server not only from the physical infrastructure but also from its physical location.

The last version supports Xen and KVM virtualization platforms to provide the following features and capabilities:

  • Centralized management, a single access point to manage a pool of VMs and physical resources.
  • Efficient resource management, including support to build any capacity provision policy and for advance reservation of capacity through the Haizea lease manager
  • Powerful API and CLI interfaces for monitoring and controlling VMs and physical resources
  • Easy 3rd party software integration to provide a complete solution for the deployment of flexible and efficient virtual infrastructures
  • Fault tolerant design, state is kept in a SQLite database.
  • Open and flexible architecture to add new infrastructure metrics and parameters or even to support new Hypervisors.
  • Support to access Amazon EC2 resources to supplement local resources with cloud resources to satisfy peak or fluctuating demands.
  • Ease of installation and administration on UNIX clusters
  • Open source software released under Apache license v2.0
  • As engine for the dynamic management of VMs, OpenNebula is being enhanced in the context of the RESERVOIR project (EU grant agreement 215605) to address the requirements of several business use cases.

More information is available here.

DSA Research Group Launches OpenNEbula Technology Preview

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The dsa-research group has announced that a new Technology Preview (TP2) of the OpenNEbula (ONE) Virtual Infrastructure Engine is available for download under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0.

ONE enables the dynamic deployment and re-allocation of virtual machines on a pool of physical resources, so extending the benefits of existing virtualization platforms from a single physical resource to a pool of resources, decoupling the server not only from the physical infrastructure but also from the physical location.

ONE Technology Preview 2 extends the functionality for management of both physical resources and virtual machines, and provides resources for developers, making public the Trac web interface.

More details are available here.